I don’t know if i technically got scammed. But here is my story.
On my last full day, I had planned to get up at the crack of dawn and be walking into the Blue Mosque the second it opened. The night before, I had a horrible night’s sleep. I was woken up in the middle of the night by a text that kept me up for the rest of the night.
I still manage to get up and out. I get to the Mosque and I am an hour early because I do not know how to correctly research opening hours.
It is really hot. I am really sun burned. I am so tired.
I sit down on a bench outside the Mosque to rest and collect my thoughts.
A man comes up to me and offers to shine my shoes. I say “NO” I am not even wearing shoes, I am wearing cheapo sneakers that are getting thrown out as soon as I get home. Despite me saying “NO”, he then says “just let me brush off the dirt”. Now I get mad. He is already down and brushing the dirt off my sneakers. All I want to do is sit here in silence and rest and go into my own little world where I figure out the things in my personal life that are now running rampant through my head.